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Behavioral interventions can be grouped as either antecedent-based interventions (ABI) or consequence-based interventions (CBI). CBI is a group of practices in which the problem behaviors are addressed by manipulating the reinforcement or punishment stimuli following an observed behavior, whereas ABI refers to a group of behavioral interventions that are concerned with the modification of environmental factors that are believed to precede problem behaviors (Tullis, Cannella-Malone, & Payne, 2015). Therefore, ABI strategies are implemented before the problem behavior occurs, so their unique quality is the possibility of problem behavior prevention, which makes the behavioral change easier to maintain compared to results ...

Introduction 4 Theoretical Background 4 Brand Love Scales 4 Definition of Love 5 Personality of Brand 5 Image of the Brand 5 Brand Love’s Elements 6 Brand Romance 7 Brand Attitude 7 Brand Loyalty 7 Fashion Brands Love 8 Brand Love in Cell Phone Industry 8 Brand Love Creation by the Companies 8 Apple/Samsung/Huawei 8 PepsiCo 9 Benetton 9 Conclusion 9

Executive Summary Brand love is a relatively new phenomenon actively discussed by the scholars and marketing professionals. Brand love is necessary for the modern companies to successfully attract and retain their customers. Moreover, it helps to convince ...

A sexual offender is a person who has committed a sex crime, which is punishable by law. Sex crimes, on the other hand, are determined by a particular area’s laws and jurisdiction and they determine whether a person’s actions fall under sexual offense or otherwise. In many countries, sex crimes are in fact major crimes which are kept side by side with other crimes like physical assault or breaking traffic rules. While some crimes committed by sex offenders are strictly sexual in nature, others might be those that are a violation of those who are chosen by ...

Societies have their base on human interaction. For many years, human evolution has depended on communication for fulfilling needs and setting new challenges. The migration of tribes, the first forms of commerce, the birth of civilizations were all possible thanks to communication. One may see the evident impact of communication on the evolution of the world, which has obviously changed from the pre-historic times to the present. Even though communication has not always led to positive outcomes, humans have proven that only good and effective communication leads to success. The transformation of tribes into empires depended greatly on who ...

Sports Direct International Plc (Sports Direct) is a chain of a retail store that was established in 1982. The entity was formed by Michael James Wallace Ashley, prominently known as Mike Ashley, who is also the owner of a football club, Newcastle United. Sports Direct is an origination of the United Kingdom (UK) and has more than 670 retail stores globally (Sports Direct, 2016). The corporate operations are segmented into two divisions namely Sports and Leisure, and Fashion and Lifestyle (Sports Direct, 2016). The Sports and Leisure division offers multiple and popular brands to target audience such as Nike, ...

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Executive Summary SunEdison is a renewable energy company. Its revenue comes from semiconductor wafer manufacturing, solar energy business and TerraForm Power (wind power and global business). The company has recently filed for bankruptcy due to poor operational performance and its inability to serve its $11 billion debt. Luckily for the company, first and second lien holders have provided the required capital to continue operation. Overall, the renewable energy market is growing at a very high rate. However, due ...

Capstone Project of a Community Surveillance System in Kentucky: Evaluation of the Community Surveillance System and the HealthSIS system (Emergint technology Inc.) used in the Northern Kentucky Health Department and St. Elizabeth Hospital

Surveillance Systems Overview 5 Disease Surveillance: Responsibilities and Procedures . 6 Project Goals .. 8 Emergint, Inc. (HealthSIS) .. 9 Monthly Log .. 11 Emergent: Health Department and St. Elizabeth Interface .. 12

Questions Regarding Performance Issues at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital . 14

Possible Solutions for Performance Issues .. 16

Conclusion and Recommendations .. 19

Appendix A .. 22 Abstract The surveillance systems for hospitals are crucial ...

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Vivendi SA is an integrated media group that operates throughout its value chain and is focused of expanding its business in order to provide unlimited means of entertainment to its customers. The company owns the leading subsidiary businesses like Universal Music Group, Canal+ Group, Gameloft, Ubisoft, Daily motion and Radionomy. The current paper aims to conduct the Resource Based View Analysis, Value Chain Analysis and Core Competency Analysis in order enlighten the resources, efficient work processes and market standing of the company.

Tangible Resources Financial The Net Cash Position of Vivendi SA indicates that the company has ...

The process of internal analysis helps in identifying and evaluating an organization’s capabilities, resources, and core competencies. Internal Assessment The internal assessment has three main components that are resources, value chain, and core competencies. The assessment of these components helps in determining the internal strength of the company.

The resource-based view helps an organization to analyze the tangible and intangible resources that are available at the disposal of the firm and can be used. These resources are determined to develop a competitive advantage of an organization. The main aim of the model is to analyze the internal resources ...

There are very few children who grew up in the 1990s who does not remember watching Disney’s “Aladdin.” They remember the image of endless sand dunes, hidden caverns, flying carpets, a beautiful princess, a handsome hero and, of course, a big blue genie. Disney’s Aladdin garnered a great deal of praise and theatrical success. “Aladdin,” unlike previous Disney animated features, where the characters and stories were in some fictitious worlds and kingdoms, “Aladdin” was going to bring to life elements of a real world location. “Aladdin” takes place in the Arabian Desert. Brining this story to life, ...

The journey towards the European Union (EU) integration has experienced several turnings. This section of the essay will detail some of the core turning points in the EU integration. Establishment of a Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was a major turning point in EU integration. The Treaty of Rome defined the specific objectives of the CAP. The CAP was introduced in 1962 (Folmern.p). The establishment of the CAP was enshrined to the state of food shortages after World War II. The aim of the CAP was to build a common European Community market and to cut off tariffs on agricultural ...

Strategic Alliances: A Critical Analysis of Successful Alliances toward Knowledge Creation and Management Introduction Going beyond the current trends in the business literature on strategic alliances, this paper explores ways strategic alliances are helping organizational firms gain competitive edge, more particularly through opening the access to markets and eventually in the creation of knowledge. This is followed by analysis of issues surrounding strategic alliances, current business examples and challenges faced by organizations that form alliances. Finally, we conclude with a brief take on the future of strategic partnership and knowledge creation research.

Since becoming a trend three decades ago, ...

Jessops was founded in 1935 by Frank Jessop Simmons well known around the world for its broad expertise and experience in the photographic industry. While Jessop was a leader in the industry for many years, technological and market changes over the last few decades led to a significant decline in its sales and profitability. By early 2013, it stores closed and it stock ceased being traded. However, soon after this British entrepreneur Peter Jones invested millions of pounds into the business and reopen 36 of the Jessops stores (BBC News Online a). He hoped to turn the business around. ...

Diabetes is a chronic illness characterized by absent or reduced pancreatic production of insulin and decreased cellular sensitivity to insulin. The result is a rise in blood sugar levels which does harm to body tissues. Obesity, or a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater, accounts for up to 85% of an individual’s risk of having type 2 diabetes (T2DM), which is the more common type (Eckel et al., 2011). Statistics show that obesity occurs more in older adults with more than a third of adults 65 years old and over considered obese (Eckel et al., 2011). ...

Strategic Alliances: A Critical Analysis of Successful Alliances toward Knowledge Creation and Management Introduction In today’s business landscape, creating sustainable value for customers and shareholders requires the initiation of an alliance strategy. Strategic alliances are alternative modes of global business operations that small to large enterprises are considering in order to achieve stronger and more effective market presence. Moreover, alliances are a fact of life for business, which needs to align present and future strategy to current radical technological and structural changes, globalization, and increased competitive pressures (Janczak, 2008). Meanwhile, the issues of trust, partner selection, and the ...

Throughout this discussion, we will analyze the history of life insurance companies, any major events which impacted the life insurance industry, including the Great Recession of 2007 which lasted for two years, rules or regulations proposed by Congress that govern the present operation of life insurance companies, including any changes of insurance laws, the current Presidential candidates plan on implementing for the life insurance industry and future expectations of the operational life insurance environment.

The life insurance industry began in the ancient city of Rome around 100 B.C. The Roman militant leader named Caius Marius, had created a certain ...

Words Count: Executive Summary Marriott International Inc. is a leader in the global lodging industry. Marriot has more than 4,400 properties spread across 87 countries. The company has also done well over the last 90 years and has transformed itself from a root beer stand in Washington D.C to a hotel behemoth. According to the 2015 survey conducted by American Customer Survey Index (ACSI) on hotel brands, Marriot is the most liked hotel brand in the world along with Hilton with a score of 81 (ACSI, 2015). Hotel industry was hit hard by the sub-prime recession in the ...

Good governance and capital structure play a crucial role in the maximization of corporate profitability, either through an increase in profit margin or a reduction in capital cost or both (Uwuigbe, 2014), and in effect shareholders’ wealth. Companies who are aware of these factors in their objectives of profit maximization eagerly put their good governance principles into corporate codes, which act as valuable reference points in their governance decisions. As such, sound corporate governance engenders investor confidence in terms of capital preservation and acceptable returns of investments (Okiro, Aduda, & Omoro, 2015; Agyei & Owusu, 2014; Heng, Azrbaijani, & San, 2012). With ...

Leadership in the business plays a critical role in offering the direction to the organization, motivation to the workers, and in fostering internal relationship and smooth production (Adrian, 2011). The management plays the dual roles of structural and systematic directives as well as leadership roles along the socio-cultural perspectives. The roles and effective responsibilities of the directorship in the organization is critical in improving the business response and crisis management. Crisis may arise in the firm because of various reasons that can be centered in the internal enterprise operations or from the external factors associated with the industry operations ( ...

There are different periods in the history of countries that play more or less significance roles. No doubt that First and Second World Wars immensely influenced the life and political situations almost in every country. These were the most disastrous event and their aftermaths were often disastrous too. In spite of these tremendous periods in the world’s history there were no less and maybe, according to some views, more important period in the history of America in the twentieth century. The period of the 60s is treated now as the time of innovations in culture, science, music and ...

Abrigo do Lagar Velho is a rock-shelter in the Portuguese valley that is famous for the stratigraphic range of the Upper Paleolithic human occupations within that area.

Acclimatization is the response of an organism to a gradual change in environmental conditions by adjusting and sustaining within these changes. Acheulian (Acheulean) is a tool made of stone that had round cutting edges and was used during the Lower Palaeolithic era.

Aegyptopithecus refers to the extinct primate of the Oligocene Period, resembling a modern-day lemur, whose fossils were found in Egypt. Afar Triangle is the region that is part of the ...

The films that will be examined in this paper have much in common though, at the same time they consist of different aspects in their plots and picture different characters (Hayward 67). The main issue that unites all these films is the theme of obsession. The meaning of this word in films is the same, but considering each character, it may have slightly different understanding. Each character has different aims and values and they act according to them (Parkinson 109). Nevertheless, there is one common and the most important characteristic feature in their behavior. It influences their lives and ...

Describe which general fossil primate groups appear and radiate during the following geological epochs: Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene. For each of the geological epochs, identify the general primate group that first appears and radiates during that epoch. In addition, give the time range in millions of years for each epoch and provide at least one example of a specific primate genus and/ or species that is representative of each general primate group. 2. List and briefly describe at least five elements of the post-cranial anatomy found in humans, but not in apes, that facilitate efficient bipedal locomotion. Provide specific ...

According to a PBS report in 2011, commenting on Middle East rooted terrorist group attacks, “While these extremely violent religious extremists represent a minority view, their threat is real” (Moore, “Evolution of Islamic Terrorism”). Today, of course, the most commonly popularized terrorist group gaining worldwide headlines in the news are the jihadists known as ISIS. Ever since ISIS has gained center stage internationally, there is hardly a human being who is not aware of the group’s presence on Earth. Currently it has been written that the contemporary world in the Middle East has been socio-politically changed, and the ...

Initiatives Starbucks announced at their recent shareholders’ meeting In their recent shareholders’ meeting, Starbucks announced several marketing initiatives that would be adopted in a bid to enhance the business’ marketing competitiveness and customer attraction as well as retention. The company announced the adoption of a new loyalty program by the introduction of a “Branded prepaid Visa card”, by the year end, that would enable the customers using it to earn reward points from the company coffee shops. The new card would be used at any retail outlets that accept such and the points earned would eventually be redeemable in ...

Portakabin is a company that concentrates on the designing and delivery of modular buildings to its customers. The company is dedicated to providing its clients with quality products and services that match their needs. The initial company market dealt with the construction industry with a concentration on portable buildings that offered on-site storage and accommodation for the clients. However, the company has diversified its market by extending it to include schools, medical centers, and offices as well. Portakabin (2011) reveals that the company is one of the most recognized and well-established brand image. Its brand image is enhanced by ...

No doubt this nation has suffered greatly in the recent past and its staying power has been challenged to its limits, chief among them the insurgency of Boko HaramBoko Haram will soon know the strength of our will and commitment to rid this nation of terror we shall spare no effort until we defeat terrorism (Buhari cited in Associated Press, 2015b)). The above quotation is from the first speech of the newly elected President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari knew exactly what he was saying, when put tackling Boko Haram as the first issue of his agenda (Associated Press, ...

Mongolia is located to the north of China and is said to host 10% of the world’s known coal reserves which is estimated to be equivalent to 162 billion tons. Coal export accounts for the largest chunk of total Mongolian gross domestic product (GDP) at roughly 22%. This is equal to approximately 80% of the county’s exports (Voroshilov 34). In the country, production and exportation of coal, specifically coking coal, is primarily undertaken by the Mongolian Mining Company (MMC). Coking coal refers to a type of coal that is absolutely essential to the process of steel production. ...

Introduction Nature, the environment and the universe as a whole, provided a huge influence on mankind for a long time. It was particularly pronounced prior to the active development of technical progress. Japanese culture can be considered as one of the brightest representatives of such influence. It is a multi-faceted, surprising and unusual world of images and objects. Everything is living his own life in harmony with the surrounding space. Japanese style evolved over the centuries. Now it is an excellent example of the preservation of a constant shape in combination with the cycle of patterns and colors. The ...

The Berlin Conference of 1884 to 1885 which is also referred to as the Congo Conference signified a powerful role in the regulation of European colonization as well as free trade in parts of Africa during the period of neo-imperialism. One of the outward goals of the conference was to implement regulations on the rampant colonization of Africa in order to prevent the military conflict between the colonizing states. It is to be noted that colonial powers went into what historians coined as the ‘Scramble for Africa’, where they decided to invade, occupy, divide and colonize the different parts ...

Chinese Contemporary Art. Art Galleries.

The emergence of art galleries of contemporary art in China of the XX century, and their rapid growth was due to strong public interest in the arts, new creative trends and evidence of qualitative changes in the perception of contemporary art by the audience. This modern audience with its subtle psychological systems and the pursuit of individual forms of creative empathy brought to life and established art galleries in the cultural space of China. There were no fundamental theoretical developments in the history of the gallery business and the organization of art galleries in ...

The monuments and architecture in ancient times allow talking and narrating about the historical background from the angle of time in which they were built. Through various signs, they inform us about the prosperity, decline of the reigns and empires as well. Thus, they are the major means of communication. They can tell us a lot about the economic, political and religious circumstances of the specific region. They also narrate the contemporary architectural trend. In medieval Europe, especially in France, the Gothic architecture was at its pinnacle. Cathedral Notre-Dame de Chartres is one of the Gothic architecture examples in ...

The Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco), which now also includes all states in the Caribbean just turned 40 years since signature in 1967. Its importance as a model for other non-nuclear areas, is constant to peace and international securities contribution, which stood and continue placing today in the center of the political and legal interest. Its parallelism with the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) but without Latin American treaty has affected the principle of legal equality of States and has not been an expression of "unequal rights and ...

The terms “ecology” and environment” have different conceptual meanings which often overlap with the concept of “nature” in the context of academic and scientific research and analysis. For instance, ‘Natures and Ecologies’ studies explore the environmental dimensions of ecosystems which includes both physical parameters and biotic attributes of a particular region. The “environment "includes the physical world, the social world of human relations and the built world of human creation. [Ankers 2005] Within the various uses of the word today, "nature" often refers to geology and wildlife. Nature can refer to the general realm of living plants and animals, ...

Introduction 3 McDonald’s Service Management 3 Motivation 3 Leadership 5 Learning and leadership management 5 Human resource management 6 Culture and diversity 7 Information technology 7 Communication 8 Apple’ Service Management 9 Agility to allow innovation into completely new areas 10 Build and enforce a performance culture... 12

Service Management Report Introduction This report aims at demonstrating the manner in which organizations provide services to their clients and how their approaches differ with each other. For purposes of this paper, two business organizations will be analyzed. These are the McDonalds Corporation, a fast food restaurant and Apple, a ...

A brake is a device that produces artificial resistance to the moving part of a machine to stop or slow down its motion. Any machine or its part that is in motion possesses kinetic energy. As per physical laws, energy cannot be destroyed; its form can only be transformed. The brake system converts the kinetic energy of the moving machine or part into thermal, potential or chemical energy. Brake systems are of various types utilized in different applications in industries, home appliances, vehicles, railway trains, and other sectors. This paper has focused on the brake systems used in vehicles, ...

The environmental friendly activities have been given utmost importance in every field. Due to the environmental degradation, the new trend of “go green” has been formed among the people. The people are very persistent about sustainability. The architecture and civil engineering are one of the major fields where the sustainability has to be considered on priority basis. Architect Stefano Boeri has been translating his unique idea of sustainability through world’s first vertical forest building, Bosco Verticale. The objective of the present paper is to explore the safety, durability and the sustainability of the architecture. It these factors are ...

The local economic context is being reshaped by the insertion of local economics into the globalization of network toward production and consumption. Currently the entrepreneurs are becoming more aggressive catalysts for change in the business world. They are regarded as the individuals who see the opportunity where others see confusion contradiction or chaos. Entrepreneurs are perhaps compared to the Olympic athletes who challenge themselves to break the barrier to the long distance runners or as symphony orchestra conductors balancing different sounds and skills into a cohesive output (Boyles, 2012). However, the essential ingredients of a good entrepreneur include the ...

Introduction. Social work is a discipline or a profession that is practiced by qualified sociologists. It involves seeking to facilitate the wellbeing of individuals, communities or even societies (Siporin, 1975). Social work enhances social change, cohesion, empowerment, and development. Social work is interconnected with social justice, Human rights, and respect for diversities. It involves the provision of social welfare in order to alleviate the economic and social problems that people face. Such difficulties include health care, education, and food security (Sach, 2003). A sociologist connects people and structures so as to tackle the challenges of life and promote the ...

Abstract While many researchers and practitioners alike are still finding that it is possible to help children develop creative thinking skills, we are also finding that this practice isn't being incorporated for all our kindergarten and pre-school children. The purpose of this paper will therefore be to investigate the ways in which children at the preschool/kindergarten level are being supported in the development of creative thinking skills, as well as the particular role this has played in helping kindergarten students. After initiating a review of the literature to guide the study, the methodology will involve data collection—interviews with ...

Min Word count 950 words Weighting 50% (of overall diploma) Deadline: See Course schedule Key Points Answer what you are asked. DO NOT WRITE OFF-TOPIC. If you do, you will waste time, waste words and irritate the examiner. This goes for formal exams as well. Answer only what you are actually asked. Do not plagiarise (pass other authors’ work off as your own). Plagiarism will carry penalties. Any time you use a quotation or reference, use a proper citation (i.e. make it clear which book or author or article or newspaper etc. you are taking the quotation or reference ...

Thomas Nast was born in Germany in 1840, and he moved to the United States at the age of six. Initially he used to do illustrations to support his family that was going through acute financial crisis. Nast started his work as an illustrator when he was 15. At that time he was working as an illustrator for a magazine called Leslie’s Weekly New. His earning was $4 a week. In the year1862, during Civil War, he took a job of a war reporter in Harper’s Weekly Magazine.

unmixable in America's melting pot. 1889 For reporting the ...

Understanding the impact of culture on student learning is very critical to the provision of good quality education to learners. The global population is made of people with different cultures. In learning institutions, it is common to find a class made up of students and instructors from different communities with different cultural perspectives. Culture defines people’s way of life and comprises beliefs, knowledge, symbols, values, and behaviors. In a learning environment, there is a student’s culture, instructor’s culture, and the culture of people in the surrounding environment. Culture in such a case can be homogenous (where ...

The issue of feminism in the film industry is a common topic for controversial discussions. Many writers are more popular than others because of the ways in which feminism surfaces as the driving force behind their presentations. Feminism can be classified as a social movement that has created an enormous impact on culture of film, the theories of films and the critical reviews of films. A number of films represent the myths that reveal ideas on women and their femininity. In addition, there are films that speak to men and their masculinity. The issues of representation and spectatorship form ...

Stainless steel is an alloy with iron as major part and chromium with at least 11% by weight . Stainless steel industry grew rapidly during the 1989-93 period . This paper analyzes stress corrosion of stainless steel along with prevention measures and selection methods for stainless steel. After carrying out the study, it would be established whether stainless steel is an effective alloy or not for major uses in steel industry through adopting various selection parameters. Stainless steel is called stainless due to the resistance to rusting and corrosion .

In order to reduce various occurrences of intergranular stress-corrosion cracking and severe ...

The labor market in the United States has changed significantly over the years because of the changes in the global market and the impact on the work force in the country. The changes have led to diversity in the way people live and work. For many people, the loss of jobs causes structural changes in the ways that people live as these people are no longer able to finance their way of life. Mortgages also have been affected by the changes in the labor market and people have now become more aggressive in securing their homes. In addition, the ...

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B. Part I - Analysis of Strategic Capabilities of Wikipedia under RBV Model 4 Resource Based View Model in Wikipedia Perspective 6 Heterogeneity and immobility of Wikipedia resources 7 VRIO Nature of Wikipedia Resources 8 C. Part II - Wikipedia in Blue Ocean Dimension 9

Performance Raise Aspect 11 Reduction Aspect 12 Creative Aspect 12 Complexity Theory: The Wikipedia Case 13 D. Conclusions 15

Introduction Wikipedia is the largest international online encyclopedia with free access and free content (Ling, 2011) . It is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization registered and operating in the United States (The ...

The Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are acknowledged as the engines of the Canadian economy. The success of these businesses leads to prosperity in the Canadian market. In Canada, 98.1% of the entire business activity lie in the category of small businesses and by the addition of the medium-sized businesses, it amounts to 99.8% of all the businesses. SMEs that belong to the Information Technology (It) industry are the major contributor to job creation and economic growth in Canada. SMEs contribute to more than 45% of the total Canadian export value that is more than $130 billion. It is ...

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In a paper presented at a symposium on teaching children to think creatively, child psychologist E. Paul Torrance (1972), creator of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) (Torrance, 1980, 1966) says, I know that it is possible to teach children to think creatively and that it can be done in a variety of ways. I have done it. I have seen my wife do it. I have seen other excellent teachers do it. I have seen children who demonstrated a disability for thinking creatively learn to think creatively. I have seen them continuing for years thereafter to ...

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Abstract IKEA today is more than a company, it is a community of highly motivated people who share the company’s values, mission, and goals. Being one of the global leaders in the sphere of household goods production, IKEA adheres to the proactive position in environmental and social issues justifying the branded idea of creating a more sustainable home life. In this paper, the sustainability factors affecting the success of the company on the international arena are analyzed. IKEA presented an unrivaled consistency in the realization of various ecological and social projects, in cooperation with suppliers and partners ...

Mining activities can pose serious environmental and health implications. Although, these environmental and health hazards can be mitigated and effectively managed through sound engineering and environmental practices, these environmental and health issues associated with mining operations could not be totally eradicated. In general, there are three major players in the mining industry: the company, which include the employees and the stockholders; the regulatory bodies, which include the government and other national and international environmental organizations; and the community, which are not directly related to the mining industry, but is impacted by its operations. Each one of these stakeholders has ...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is recognized as a common neurodevelopmental disorder among children; in the United States, the prevalence is thought to be between 5 percent and 11 percent of children ages 4 through 17 in 2011 or approximately 6.4 million children (American Psychiatric Association, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder ; CDC.gov, Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder). Kessler places the adults with ADHD at 1 percent to 6 percent of the population (Kessler 717). A meta-analysis of 32 published research articles concluded that when children met the full diagnostic criteria for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, 15 percent continued to show symptoms at ...

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Pros of Requiring Body Cameras 4-5 Institutional Police Abuse and Corruption. 5-6 Racial Elements & Police 6-7 Technology & Police.. 7-8

Walter Scott & Officer Michael E. Slager 8-9 Police Resolving Problems 9-10 Making Changes 11-12 Conclusion. 12-13

INTRODUCTION Law and order is an issue that all civilizations past, present and future have faced. All people try to find the most ethical, moral, philosophical and effective means to establish laws, enforce those laws, punish the guilty and provide justice for the victims of crimes committed. For generations law enforcement officers have been the bridge between the public and the American ...

Executive Summary The paper is intended to explore and analyze the portfolio in any one of the agency management and proper description of the job role. Different agencies are discussed before considering any of them include Advertising Agencies, PR Agencies, Media Buying Agencies, Sales Promotion Agencies, Brand Identity Agencies, Social Media Agencies, Digital or Online Marketing Agencies, Design Agencies, Market Research Agencies, Web Design Agencies and Print Agencies. All agencies have different roles and functions across the field of marketing. The Advertising Agency is decided to explore the portfolio and overall process of campaign management. The job role of ...

Avian influenza also is known as bird flu and results from viruses acclimatized to some birds. People may be infected with avian influenza when they get into contact with the infected birds or infected fluids from the birds (Capua and Dennis 10). In this report, the discussion is about the evolution of avian influenza, characteristics of the virus, epidemiology of the virus, as well as the mode of transmission. Moreover, the paper talks about the gene expression of the virus, infection of the human by the virus, evolution of avian influenza's vaccines, and criticisms surrounding evolution of the virus.

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One of the major clinical issues in every health care organization is medication errors. The expression “medication errors” describes the harm caused to a patient due to inappropriate medical care. An adverse event indicates an undesirable clinical outcome caused due to the medical care not because of the underlying disease. The medical errors include incompatible blood products usage, erroneous dispensing and medication administration. Medication errors can at times result in adverse health resulting in death. It was estimated that every year approximately 1.5 million medication errors occur . These errors range from medication overdose to the administration of wrong medicine ...

Ted Kooser was born in the year 1939 in the town of Ames, Iowa (Baker, 2016, p.1). His poetry usually reflects regional life in America, much like the paintings of Grant Wood. He was a poet laureate, and he centered on giving life to objects and images, thereby giving special meaning to them through direct connection to things that are totally different. This is seen in his poem, entitled “Lantern”, in which he gives emphasis on human transience, particularly on the creation of the world, when the Creator bearing the light shares it to the creatures in the barn, ...

Service Superiority is important in determining the success of any given service providing organization and influences the level of its competitiveness in the market. A bank in the retail market can outdo its competitors through the provision of excellent services. To retain one's consumers; the quality of service provided must be very palatable to the consumers. This study seeks to establish the relationship between service quality and client loyalty in the retail banking sector in the U.K. This will go a long way in assisting bankers to evaluate and improve the quality of customer service to gain their loyalty ...

Environmental Effects Many have wondered what will happen when all of the tress in the world are gone. At the rate of deforestation generations soon to come will suffer the consequences of not having any trees due to deforestation today. Throughout this paper many details will be made evident as to who and what is effected by deforestation such as indigenous people as well as environment effects and climate change and what kind of damage is done to many different ecosystems and our planet as a whole but also what we can to do solve these issues. When digging ...

Introduction The luxury industry comprises of different segments and according to the 2014 statics, it is evident that the business experienced a healthy growth of about 7% and was expected to grow further in the future (Linda Farrow, 2013, p.22). However, it is evident that international travel and tourism are some of the factors that have enhanced luxury experience across the globe. Apparently, luxury spending is done by both individuals and tourists in a given area, and the culture is continuously gaining popularity in the recent past. Marcom analysis in business studies refers to the analysis of the various ...

1. Gene Editing – General Background Gene editing entails inserting, deleting and replace the DNA in a genome of an organism utilizing engineered nucleases. Sections of the natural gene are replaced and completed using a synthetic DNA chain. Also, the natural repair process gets rid of the mismatches and gaps in the DNA. On the other hand, gene disruption is a technique by which the DNA fragment is utilized to replace a genome sequence with a chosen marker gene like the kanavanine resistance. DNA –binding proteins are proteins that consist of DNA-binding domains and hence have affinity for single and ...

Better communication means using the same definitions. The words that are used by the petroleum industry to describe the amount of production, waste and loss are not clearly defined. Transparency is absolutely needed and communication with the IOCs must be improved. The petroleum industrial sector must be held responsible for what they say and what they do. Unravelling the doublespeak in written and spoken messages from the IOCs needs to be a serious goal. The people of the Niger Delta can be involved in translating the dialogue and regulatory intentions of the IOCs. They live in the reality and involving ...

In the analysis of personal organizational ethics, it is important to consider the identification of the key problems that relates to the business ethics of the organization. With these two organizations, the Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc and Jollibee Foods Corporation, both have its key problems. The key problems are the core targets to evaluate the stands of the organizations, how they responded to the problems legally, socially, and politically. Consequently, from the individual responses of the organizations on legal, social, and political perspectives, ethnographic researchers can provide reflections and criticisms of their actions based on the ...

Globalization brings about the needs of global companies to operate more efficiently with the aim to gain competitive advantages and to face the contemporary issues and challenges in the contemporary world. A critical factor in optimizing organizational efficient operations of these companies is the IHRM (Guest et al., 2000a; Guest et al., 2000b). The HRM operations helps in developing and motivating the workforce of the companies to improve skills, knowledge, and the modernization required for the companies to vie with ...

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Introduction This paper would like to discuss Ryanair’s business strategy and how it is linked with the company’s financial accountability. As stated by Friedman, a business’s primary accountability is to increase its profit. Apparently, financial accountability does not only relate to providing accurate reports and financial statements to avoid fraud. An equally important concept of financial accountability is on how it relates to managing company resources, expanding on strengths and how it effectively uses accounting tools to develop strategies that would provide economic benefit for the company. However, economic forces can sometimes become confusing. ...

Figure 1 Manufacturing steps involved in EDM 4 Figure 2 Classification for main research areas in EDM. 6 Figure 3 Sequence of first, second and third generation of 3D Printing . 7 Figure 4 Different processes of 3D Printing. 8 Figure 5 3D Printing of Prototype car 9 Figure 6 New Development and design of reticle Assembly 11 Figure 7 Comparison between cost of assembly & manufacturing . 12

FOREWORDS Manufacturing processes are vital for both developed and developing countries of the world. Developed economies depend heavily on manufacturing industries for their revenues and, as a ...

Analytically, Softwood Ltd has been experiencing growth in the recent years thanks to its large client base. In its effort to expand, the business should make sound financial decisions to avoid a possible decline of its current position.

These sources can be divided into two 1. Internal sources Internal sources encompass all sources of finances within the company. These could be retained profits, proceeds from sale of furniture of the company’s property and personal savings by the owners of the venture (Dlabay, 2008). 2. External sources External sources ,on the other hand, encompass all sources ...

- Research Methodology The research methodology of any research is very important to define as it lays out essential parameters on which a research is based upon. Walliman states that methodology assists a researcher in identifying the research approach which in turn helps in defining the sampling strategy and sampling size along with the research strategy. The research methodology of this report will discuss the research approach, research design, the tools used and the sampling size and strategy respectively. - Research Approach The research approach which has been adopted in this particular research is qualitative approach. Qualitative research ...

- MICHAEL PARENTI’S VIEWS REGARDING MEDIA IN USA Michael Parenti is an American political scientist, historian and cultural critic, who write on scholarly and popular subjects. With respect to US media, Parenti claims that though media maybe spoilt and made difficult by deadlines, space and human error, much of the misleading coverage is the result of ideological productions. He says that researchers practice a lot to avoid the most important details of a story or news, so that no offense is intended on people who have political and economic powers. Their goal is to avoid fishing deep into the ...

The House I Live In is a compelling account of the manner in which America’s War on Drugs has devastates families and individuals especially those belonging to the minority community. It has targeted the poor and the jobless. The film portrays touching anecdotes of those directly impacted by drugs – be it the grieving mother to the drug dealer, the senator to the narcotics officer, the federal judge to the prison inmate. The film highlights this as a serious human rights issue and urges people to speak against the injustice taking place in this country. The film in fact portrays ...

Erich Maria Remarque fought in World War I where he was badly wounded. A decade after the war he wrote a book detailing how ordinary German soldiers fared during the war and this book of his was translated into All Quiet on the Western Front. At the time he wrote his book, war books had a romantic feel about them in their dealings with honor, glory and adventure and in 1895 Stephen Crane changed that with his book titled The Red Badge of Courage which revealed the brutality and violence that is all too common with wars. Remarque followed a similar mold ...

Around Cambridge, the youthful population tries to look good and basically imitate their icons on television and their fellow colleagues. However this is far from reality since they have limited information on the latest trends style stores that provide quality products and services and at affordable prices. Fashion setters, meets the demand of this population by offering nail products and services at their convenience. This convenient provision in essence enables students and the rest of our customers pride themselves in well-kept toe and finger nail, neat hair do`s and their esteem is boosted too. This executive and ...

Trichomonas gallinae, a flagellated protozoan, adversely affects the avian livestock, particularly the columbids. It causes an infection called necrotic ingluvitis and the disease can range from asymptomatic to lethal. The parasite affects the anterior gastrointestinal tract of the bird, forms granulomatous lesions, and blocks the oesophagus, making the bird starve, thus leading to death. The virulence of the strain varies with some strains causing up to 75% mortality. In UK, the infection was first recognized as an emerging infectious disease of British finches in summer of 2005. The sick dead birds exhibited signs of malaise such as lethargy and fluffed-up ...

A slave named Androcles once escaped from his master and fled to the forest. As he was wandering about there he came upon a Lion lying down moaning and groaning. At first he turned to flee, but finding that the Lion did not pursue him, he turned back and went up to him. As he came near, the Lion put out his paw, which was all swollen and bleeding, and Androcles found that a huge thorn had got into it, and was causing all the pain. He pulled out the thorn and bound up the paw of the Lion, who was ...

Since time immemorial, the existence of financial crises has had profound effects on the overall economy. In particular, consumption of individuals has been the most affected during times of such crises. My paper discusses the consumption habits of developed societies during the period when they experience a financial crisis. The way that developed countries handle a crisis varies. While some nations may favor austerity measures, others may opt for more investments by the national government. It is of interest to me to analyze what takes place at the household level. The need for research on the lowest level of household consumption ...

The ‘catcher in the rye’ is a novel by J D Salinger. The novel carries the novel, themes on teenage rebellion, confusion, alienation and anger. The novel’s main character, Holden Caulfield presents the key themes through his representation in the novel. In the novel, Caulfield narrates his story from a hospital bed. He gets to address the reader on the events that culminated to his breakdown the last December (Salinger 14). Holden gets faced with depression, impulsive spending, nervous breakdown, vulgarity, sexual exploration and other erratic behaviors. Holden candidly narrates his story, which can get associated to the present day ...

The first movie I would like to analyze is a South Korean horror-thriller movie “Old Boy”, directed by Park Chan-Wook, that was first released in 2003. The storyline is based on a poorly-known Japanese manga of the same name, written by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya. This movie is a part of a trilogy called “Vengeance Trilogy” together with “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance” and “Sympathy for Lady Vengeance”. “Old Boy” won the so called “Grand Prix”(the second award in order of importance) during the Cannes Film Festival, receiving also a special mention by Quentin Tarantino (president of the Jury). The impact of ...

In the horizontal analysis of the company, one considers the various line items in the income statements and the balance sheet with similar items in the previous years. Looking at the year 2008, the company did not perform well. In terms of sales, there was a decrease in the sales compared to the year 2007. There was a decrease of $ 897,000 which is 15% of the sales revenue. As a result of the low sales, the company suffered a loss in the gross profit. The profit reduced from $1.6M to $1.4M. When analysing the expenses, the website creation and maintenance is a ...

When a person overexerts himself from doing strenuous activities through the say, he may feel sore and tired in each part of his body. This type of problem is called fatigue. Fatigue is mostly connected to the feeling of exhaustion because of the lack of energy and stress because of too much work, lack of sleep, lack of exercise or even because of boredom. But how exactly does this process work and how a person can discern fatigue once it is happening in the body. This paper will discuss the processes on how fatigue takes into place in the body, how ...